1. A telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)
   - Morse code, international Morse code
    
2. United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
   - Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Derived forms: Morses

Type of: artificer, code, discoverer, inventor, painter

Encyclopedia: Morse, Nicholas